WED: An Efficient Wheezing-Episode Detector Based on Breath Sounds Spectrogram Analysis

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2531-2534

  Taplidou, S A ^a   Hadjileontiadis, L J ^a   Penzel, T ^b   Gross, V ^b   Panas, S M ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breath sounds; Detection; Spectrogram; Wheezing episodes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOSENSORS; BREATH CONTROLLED DEVICES; DATA REDUCTION; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; DISEASE CONTROL; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BREATH SOUNDS; SPECTROGRAMS; WHEEZING EPISODES;

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 1542330915     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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